The
NYT Book Review just named it one of the
5 best fiction books of the year. The AV Club
helpfully posted a video to show you what happens when you open it. Actually,
lots of folks posted videos to show you what happens when you open it.
Other folks raved in print about the author and his career.
The Comics Journal asked a dozen critics of the author's work to send in reviews;
this one focuses on the role of disability in the narrative.
This one notes the book "is in a very primary sense a comic about women and the private lives they lead, and it investigates more fully than any other comic I have ever read the way they age, fall in love, explore their sexuality, come to terms with compromises they’ve had to make as they’ve grown, accept their limitations, confront squandered ability, have children (or choose not to have children), marry (or stay single), and make sense of the world around them." You might find
Chris Ware's Building Stories worth a look or two. Or fourteen.
[more inside]
posted by mediareport
on Dec 19, 2012 -
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An
informative, gossipy and surprisingly engaging 6-page exploration of the life of Charles Dickens, including his
up-and-down relationship with the U.S. press, his
inexcusable behavior during his messy and very public separation from his wife, the
"histrionic flair" of his performance career, and, of course, his works, including the one George Bernard Shaw called "a more seditious book than
Das Kapital." Lots of interesting images, too.
posted by mediareport
on May 24, 2007 -
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